Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024

Tony Estanguet is a three-time European champion, three-time world champion, three-time Olympic champion, France’s flag-bearer at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the first French athlete to have won three gold medals at three different Olympic Games (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and London 2012).

He was elected to the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes Commission in 2012 and has been especially involved in the IOC’s Sustainability and Legacy Commission. He has also served as vice-president of the International Canoe Federation since 2014.

He co-chaired the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Bid Committee alongside Bernard Lapasset and all the stakeholders involved in the project: the sports movement, civil society, public sector and private sector. This campaign won France the Games after the country’s bids had been declined five times.

As President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, he aims to bring together all the communities and organisations that want to take part in the Olympic and Paralympic adventure to showcase France at its finest and tender a new model for a more spectacular, more responsible and more open Games. Tony Estanguet was born in the city of Pau in southwestern France on 6 May 1978 and grew up in a family of sports enthusiasts, all of whom enjoy nature sports in the nearby Pyrenees. He has already started sharing this passion for sport with his three children.